Lamentations 3:17
Thus my soule was farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie,
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
In Context
16He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes.
18And I saide, My strength and mine hope is perished from the Lord,
Cross References
Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall not returne to see pleasure.
Isaiah 38:17Beholde, for felicitie I had bitter griefe, but it was thy pleasure to deliuer my soule from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sinnes behinde thy backe.
Isaiah 59:11We roare all like beares, and mourne like dooues: wee looke for equitie, but there is none: for health, but it is farre from vs.
Jeremiah 14:19Hast thou vtterly reiected Iudah, or hath thy soule abhorred Zion? why hast thou smitten vs, that we cannot be healed? Wee looked for peace, and there is no good, and for the time of health, and behold trouble.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: and let not the day wherein my mother bare me, be blessed.
Zechariah 8:10For before these dayes there was no hire for man nor any hire for beast, neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men, euery one against his neighbour.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →